The Los Angeles City Council voted to pass an ordinance Tuesday that bans the city’s resources from being used for federal immigration enforcement or by federal immigration agents. Council members unanimously voted to pass the ordinance. LA Mayor Karen Bass and City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto drafted the “sanctuary city” ordinance in early November after [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear Alaska residents’ challenge of a ballot measure that requires public disclosure of political donations. The plaintiffs argue that the requirement violates their constitutional right to free speech. The plaintiffs initially requested a preliminary injunction to prevent the provisions of Ballot Measure 2 from taking effect. These [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversed and remanded a lower court ruling on Tuesday that allowed the organizations VoteAmerica and the Voter Participation Center (VPC) to send out mail-in ballot applications to Kansas voters with pre-filled information. VoteAmerica and the VPC, the plaintiffs, initially brought the case against Kansas Secretary of [...]

The US Supreme Court issued an order on Wednesday permitting the state of Virginia to continue to remove voters from its election rolls with just five days until the federal election. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed the lawsuit against Virginia in early October, alleging that since the state has been removing voters so [...]

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner filed a civil lawsuit against Elon Musk and his America PAC on Monday. The lawsuit alleges that the PAC’s petition, with an offer to pay some Pennsylvania registered voters who sign $1 million, amounts to an illegal lottery. In the complaint, Krasner argues that this petition violates the State Lottery [...]

The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously declined to hear an expedited appeal and emergency supersedeas filed by the intervenors, including the Republican National Committee (RNC), following last week’s lower court order declaring new state election rules void. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox issued the order, declaring the new Georgia State Election Board [...]

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney temporarily suspended a state rule on Tuesday requiring paper ballots to be hand-counted in Georgia in the upcoming US election. The decision came in an expedited bench trial following the parties’ emergency motions. The respondent in the case, the Georgia State Election Board (SEB), approved the hand-count rule [...]

The Moscow City Court sentenced US citizen Stephen Hubbard to six years and 10 months in prison on Monday after he was convicted of fighting as a mercenary for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) against the Russian military. Hubbard was charged under a section in the Russian Criminal Code that concerns mercenary activity. A [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments on Monday in a civil rights lawsuit alleging St. James Parish’s land-use policies have discriminated against majority-Black neighborhoods, resulting in pollution and other harms. St. James Parish, located outside New Orleans, is accused of implementing a 2014 land-use plan that “effectively codified” racist [...]

California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Senate Bill (SB) 1047 on Sunday, concluding the bill was insufficiently broad in its regulation of large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) models, and lacked empirical support. Newsom viewed SB 1047 as premature and overly sweeping, noting that it “applies stringent standards to even the most basic functions” of AI, so long [...]